Building The Ultimate Mac Pr #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and today it is

time to upgrade

Matt's 2010 Mac Pro yeah okay

so Matt has had an unfortunate incident

recently and that his dog broke his IMAX

screen so took him up we're getting a

little bit of a project and see what we

can actually upgrade with his original

Mac Pro also if you guys don't know Matt

he's the one who runs this is and makes

fun of me on mystery Tech it's true this

is not a stock 2010 Mac Pro right it

still works right now but you want to

basically see if you can get it a little

bit less great I've done some

modifications with it these are all USB

2 and they have no way to really change

that so then I need USB 3 so I got this

card here which has worked really well

for me yeah but it needed dedicated

power it wouldn't run off the PCIe wait

so did you this came with an optical

drive right it has two optical bays the

door doesn't like to close when turns

out it's nothing meant to be right here

we've upgraded this several times over

the years that you've owned the Mac Pro

yes so what are you doing with the Mac

Pro once we're done rebuilding it so I

do video editing was this didn't you

clean this uh there's literally like an

inch of dust on your graphics card

probably never whoa this was an off road

off road yeah so when you travel with

this yeah so can you run me through the

spec of this guy so this is 2010 is it

what a quad core it is a quad core I

think 2.6 gigahertz xenon the first

thing is we should have prayed the CPU

if you're rocking the quad core this

goes up to was it like 10 cores it can

do 12 cores

maximum you've already got the hard

drives I think maybe we just swap out

this SSD for something that's just a

little bit more modern a little bit

quicker so we've got a task here so I

think the next step is I need to do some

googling and find some parts and let's

see if we can get this upgraded and back

to 2019 specs so it has been about what

two weeks now two weeks and we have

everything we need for the ultimate Mac

Pro Masaru the match pro apologies so

the ways of the Mac Pro works is that

while you can buy the CPUs you can also

buy the entire trait which essentially

is the motherboard we could gone to a

six core with a little bit better clock

speed but the real upgrade is

to the dual talking yes so essentially

what we have here are a pair of six core

processors it might not sound super

impressive thank you very much in this

sort of modern era where we have you

know what 32 cores and thread Ripper but

12 cores was a lot of power especially

for 2010 one of the interesting things

about this is that the entire upgrade

was actually not that expensive so we're

able to get the tray which of course is

the motherboard as well as the tools to

CPUs for a little bit over $500 now this

is like a what like a $6,500 config when

I first came out yeah and that's not

including the memory we got with it and

so we also have to get we got 64 gigs as

you can see by my giant pile of dents

here I mean I guess you do have the

limitation that single thread is

probably not gonna be super impressive

but what we're using it for is primarily

like editing I do play the occasional

game on it well you'll probably be able

to gain oh yeah I love my civilization

well so with that we've upgraded from a

quad core to a 12 core in this entire

setup with the new tray the dual CPUs

the 64 gigs of ram still cost us only

about $700 yeah which obviously is a

fair bit but considering that if you

were to bought this in 2010 it would

have been at least 10 times that really

not a bad upgrade so we went with a rx

580 AMD card um this is pretty much the

maximum that the system can handle this

is the original connector it's a pair of

6 pin it's correct and you've adapted a

six to an eight which already is bad

alright let's pull the 760 out so this

is actually built in support for a

little longer GPU yeah interesting

actually have we even measured to see if

this Strix card will fit um on paper I

mean it hold it looked like you'll be

it'll be fine oh we didn't clean this

out why is there already a 14 terabyte

hard drive in here I got excited locate

it so apparently mat stealing company

property and installing a 14 terabyte

hard drive in his Mac Pro so when we

started this project it was running

Sierra and so we wanted to go to Mojave

because we needed that for the graphic

art support but it wouldn't let us

upgrade it until we upgraded the

firmware of the motherboards but there's

a fun little problem with that is the

only way to update the firmware is if

you have the

original EFI graphics cards so we found

a guy in town who had one and let us

borrow his just to update the firmware

you're covered in dust right now no no

did you clean your dirty computer I

thought that's what you were doing

no I'm upgrading it with like 12 cores

and stuff I'm not cleaning do I look

like a cleaning service full service man

so with that we have our 12 core CPU 64

gigs of ram and our RX 580 next let's

upgrade dress is deep so with that

you've got a 1 terabyte SSD I think it's

time to see if this thing actually works

Matt what you have to do the honors yeah

I hope you take off my powered by EVGA

that's fine it's not it's powered by ev8

Oh a little RGB going here yeah hey it

works there you go alright go up to

about this Mac we see there you go to 3

gigahertz 6 core Intel Xeon say 64 gigs

ok cool so all of our 8 gig dims are

showing up so for reference we're going

from a quad-core xeon all the way up to

a pair of 6 core cpus and we're going

from 8 gigs to 64 gigs of ram now

Geekbench i think should show a fairly

substantial difference especially in the

multi-core 27:34 20,000 on the

multi-core

so single core obviously is now that

impressive of me it's essentially a

ten-year-old processor but 20,000 on the

multi-core for a 2010 system that's

ridiculous so for reference before the

upgrades the single core was 2175 and

the multi-core was 7600 wow that is a

huge difference

next up we have set a bench now not only

will this test the CPU but I'm also

curious to see how much higher the GPU

score is so especially consider that

this started out with a 5770 I mean a

580 is going to be then five six times

faster eight times the memory and it's a

massive massive difference so we're

going from 43 to 59 that's not that good

oh dude look at that I never get tired

of seeing like a million thread spin up

for Cinebench so you know what's crazy

with this it's not actually that

expensive when you consider right so

what do you think would have cost to

first of all like buy like your original

Mac Pro chassis and just do like the the

tray upgrade with the memory instead

I mean I've seen I've seen like the

original chassis x' go anywhere from 250

to about 450 the six core CPUs you can

get for like 180 which is bananas how

cheap that is and then the the five ATS

I've seen for 175 so R and news

realistically all the upgrades we've

done to this system are about a thousand

dollars maybe a little bit more

considering that we have the ones like

okay the 14 terabyte drive is like

that's overkill where you know that part

of it to really put this to the test we

have our resident editing man

Jimmy champagne it's me Jimmy I'm here

so we are editing off of an external SSD

so we're using this little Samsung t5

which is plugged into Matt's a USB C

card so that's pretty standard yeah

which is what we edit all of our videos

on but it seems to be fine so now we're

gonna try and sink the footage see how

quick that goes that went as quick as it

does on the iMac pro will do better

quality if this is unrendered 4k Pro

right here is this a woman background

render is a little slower than the iMac

pro boy so basically you have a tank or

iMac yeah which is obviously faster but

when you compare this to something like

a MacBook or an iMac this is still more

powerful I'd say it also to be faster

than the MacBook but noticeably slower

than the high Mac Pro so it's fine

somewhere in between which is pretty

funny for a nine year old desktop which

we just Frankenstein together yeah with

like less than thousand dollars worth of

parts so that my friends is building the

ultimate match Pro for something that's

this old the amount of power able to get

especially concerning the price is super

super impressive so if you excuse me I'm

going to go buy a lot more of these and

have some fun

that actually sounds really ominous like

as if I'm gonna build like some super

computer out of Mac perrault's I'm

actually not gonna buy any more of these